Quote Originally Posted by Columcille View Post
There are new leprosies, ones not so easily cured by medication. Even if medications may treat some illnesses, nobody is immortal. The only immortality one can hope for is found in a noble character, in fulfilling as one is capable to affect goodness. However, such ideals seem fantasy, and it is in Christ where the checks and balances are maintained. What is your gospel? Is it to create a political utopia? The Pope's role is to guide the sheep of Christ. Hence, he could no more "stay out of it" than to commit suicide just for your idealized new "reality." Is this your ultimate answer? That us Christians would be better off dead and out of your way from gaining your ideal utopia?
I looked and couldn't find a new leprosy. It's the same old leprosy. It's a bacterial infection and it's treated and cured with antibiotics. The disease has ceased to be a public health threat in all but 12 countries.
Pathogenic bacteria is not divine retribution. It is not the result of "sin". Jesus cured a leper, but modern medicine has cured many thousands of cases, and prevented many thousands more in the last century.
It is true that the victims are mortal, as are the professionals who research, and develop treatments. Even so, we research, develop, and impliment treatments.
I never understood the quest for immortality. To get it you have to look to the supernatural. We have to "affect a noble character, in fulfilling as one is capable to affect goodness", which, according to the Pope means letting die anyone who doesn't manage his/her sex life the way your god and your church says they should.
Keep your definition of noble, your sex manual, your checks and balances, and your quest. I don't want it.
What is my gospel? What on Earth are you going on about?!?
I didn't say the Pope shold tell people to stay out of it. I said the church's involvement is HARMFUL, and he really should stay out of it!
Is increased health and wellness on a global scale too idealistic for the church? It might mean re-evaluating its position on the use of condoms to reduce the spread of HIV, and that won't happen right now. The Pope won't let people live a little longer and maybe find their way to your christ. No way! It's all right now, or nothing!
You suggest I want you christians dead for some personal agenda? What's the matter with you?!?
I must say, you're starting to sound like one of those paranoid, extremist, fringe groups. All I can say is, DON'T DRINK THE KOOL-AID!